As a Speaker,what Can You Do to Hold Your Audience's

question 6

Multiple Choice

As a speaker,what can you do to hold your audience's attention and overcome the discrepancy between speech and thought rate?

• A)You should build in message redundancy and make your major ideas really clear.
• B)You should make the speech as short as possible,while still managing to include your main points.
• C)You should probably not do a speech at all if you think the audience will lose attention; instead,simply have a discussion or question-and-answer session.
• D)There is really nothing a speaker can do to hold the audience's attention; if the audience loses focus,that is their fault and they should have stayed at home.

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